ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

Is ET gonna do Spacemen 3 (will totally vote in that if so)

Still need to be in a holding pattern with this until October.

ok no prob

so I'll do XTC when Autechre is done then

A. Pavement - Johnny Fever (finished)
B. Manic Street Preachers - Jamie_ATP (finished)
C. Blur - Nasty, Brutish & Short (finished)
1. Pet Shop Boys - Billy Dods (finished)
2. Beatles - Mark G (finished)
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP (finished)
4. U2 - Ismael Klata (finished)
5. Beach Boys - iatee (finished)
6. Led Zeppelin - WmC (finished)
7. Timbaland - some dude (finished)
8. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever (finished)
9. Stevie Wonder - Eric H. (finished)
10. “Producers” - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
11. Pulp - Finefinemusic (finished)
12. James Brown - strongo/Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
13. Jacksons - Jamie_ATP (finished)
14. David Bowie - WmC (finished)
15. Paul Simon - Lamp (finished)
16. Rolling Stones - rogermexico (finished)
17. The Kinks - C. Grisso/McCain (finished)
18. Depeche Mode - crüt (finished)
19. Beastie Boys - Johnny Fever (finished)
20. ABBA - donna rouge (finished)
20B. Bee Gees - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
21. Neil Young - clemenza (finished)
22. Fleetwood Mac - Clarke B. (finished)
23. The Cure - nate woolls (finished)
24. Kate Bush - Ismael Klata (finished)
25. The Who - Tarfumes the Escape Goat (finished)
26. Joni Mitchell - Mordy (finished)
27. The Neptunes - V79/some dude (finished)
28. Saint Etienne - Billy Dods (finished)
29. Hüsker Dü - Pleasant Plains (finished)
30. Bruce Springsteen - Jamie_ATP (finished)
31. Madonna - Johnny Fever (finished)
32. Miles Davis - WmC (finished)
33. The Fall - Mark G (finished)
34. PJ Harvey - Nasty, Brutish & Short (finished)
35. Cocteau Twins - Le Bateau Ivre/LeRooLeRoo (finished)
36. Sonic Youth - ArchCarrier (finished)
37. New Order - Bee OK (finished)
37B. The Doors - Ismael Klata (finished)
38. The Clash - Gukbe (finished)
39. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy (finished)
40. Jay-Z - some dude (finished)
41. Elton John - Johnny Fever (finished)
42. Stax - seandalai (finished)
43. Disco - Tuomas (finished)
44. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope (finished)
45. Tom Waits - chap (finished)
45B. Velvet Underground and Solo Careers (finished)
46. The “Classic Rock” Canon - some dude (finished)
47. Elvis Costello - kornrulez (finished)
48. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry - charlie h (finished)
49. Pink Floyd - Elvis Telecom (finished)
50. Steely Dan - Bee OK (finished)
51. Bob Dylan - tipsy mothra (finished)
52. Sleater-Kinney + offshoots - C.Grisso/McCain (finished)
53. Outkast - Spottie (finished)
54. Autechre - Leee (VOTING IN PROGRESS)
55. Brian Eno - WmC (finished)
56. Chic Organization - Donna Rouge? possibly needs volunteer poll runner
57. Spaceman 3 (& descendants) - Elvis Telecom - on hold until fall 2014
58. Radiohead - nate woolls (RESULTS ROLLING OUT NOW)
59. Yo La Tengo/Dump - clemenza (Wednesday, July 1, 2015 from 9:30-10 a.m. EDT)
60. XTC - Οὖτις (up next after Autechre)
61. Stooges/Iggy Pop - flopson
62. The Boo Radleys - Bee OK
63. P-Funk - Οὖτις
64. Italo - daavid
65. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy
66. Creedence Clearwater Revival - crüt
67. “Epics” (non-classical division) - Leee
68. Hard Rock/Hair Metal - how’s life
69. Extreme Metal - Viceroy
70. Stephin Merritt - Gukbe
71. Pixies - Johnny Fever
72. Metallica - Pleasant Plains
73. Spoon - Bee OK
74. Nirvana - Gavin, Leeds
75. Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods
76. Queen - charlie h
77. Can - Z S
78. Tom Petty - rogermexico
79. Ramones - tipsy mothra (finished)
80. Jimi Hendrix - needs a volunteer poll runner
81. Sightings - Raymond Cummings - remove this one?
82. John Coltrane - Tarfumes the Escape Goat
83. Stereolab - Moka
84. Bauhaus/Tones on Tail-Love and Rockets/Peter Murphy - Bee OK
85. Genesis + solo - NickB
86. The Smiths - nate woolls
87. Pearl Jam - VegemiteGrrl
88. The Burt Bacharach songbook - WilliamC
89. Dead C - Raymond Cummings
90. Royal Trux + side projects - sleeve
91. John Fahey - Naive Teen Idol?
92. Rush - Matt #2
93. Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one
94. George Michael - Ismael Klata
95. Talking Heads - Bee OK
96. Gamble & Huff/Philly International Records - jetfan
97. Van Halen - Johnny Fever
98. Billy Joel - Doctor Casino
99. Low - aldo
100. Nine Inch Nails - chap
101. REM - rogermexico.
102. Bjork - Eric H.
103. Wu-Tang Clan - ― Spottie
104. Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Post-rock (Albums and EPs) - Bee OK
105. Covers - kornrulez6969
106. New Pornographers/AC Newman - staggerlee
107. They Might Be Giants - Johnny Fever
108. No Wave - sarahell
109. DFA - Van Horn Street
110. Misfits/Samhain/Danzig - gr8080
111. Beatles solo careers - WilliamC
112. Erykah Badu - Eric H.
113. Nick Cave/Bad Seeds/Birthday Party/et al - charlie h
114. Herbie Hancock - crüt
115. Aphex Twin - Stevie D
116. Blondie - Bee OK
117. Electroclash - soref
118. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - Spottie
119. Siouxsie & the Banshees/The Creatures - LeRooLeRoo
120. AM Radio Gold - Jeff W
121. Eurovision - nxd

Wondered this morning what the average placement of my #1 votes would be, but the amt of work that would take is nutty.

59. Yo La Tengo/Dump - clemenza (Wednesday, July 1, 2015 from 9:30-10 a.m. EDT)

LOL

line 115 is a bit messed up.

i was thinking about switching Spoon with The Boo Radleys because of Spoon's new album. it's the Boo Radleys so no i will keep it the way it is as that is the one i'm most looking forward to.

so Hendrix needs a pollrunner? I'm up for taking that on.

oh shit pp's doin' 'tallica

is flopson around to do his?

really really excited for YLT poll, them being my favorite band and whatnot

Yeah, my enthusiasm's low on Hendrix (for running the poll, not for voting). Thanks for taking that one.

Oops at those line breaks. I'll fix it in the next full list.

Looks like flopson had himself banned in February. We can put Iggy/Stooges on hold on the assumption he'll be back someday, or someone else can take that one. Or if anyone knows him IRL, tell him all is forgiven please come home.

why would anyone be banned on this lovely message board?

ban flopson

hi can i please be banned from ilx? sent a couple discrete e-mails to mods yesterday to no avail. my life is just way too stupid right now to be spending as many hours as i have reading debates on the legitimate order of music polls.

this is not a joke though please ban my ass

thx <3

WC: going to set my alarm just to be sure. Later, I'll grill.

Shoot, where's the link to the .xls?

idg why someone would ask to be banned, have they no self-control

To answer my own question, it's a Google doc now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdDhKV1NraFUtWXptd25nbEZ0cGxYeXc#gid=0

Leee, I can email you the original .xls as a standalone file if you want, but I think you can also Save-As that google doc to your computer.

Yeah, I was going to do a Save As once I get home.

god bless the cloud

Turns out I don't know how to use shot pivot table, so I wrote up a Perl script to handle these things. I can share it if anyone else is programmatically inclined.

Οὖτις, ready to roll XTC out?

Would there be much interest in a Steve Albini band poll?

I'm not knowledgable enough for that one. Albini production jobs would be a great side poll though.

Yeah I was thinking the same. Add me to the list!

Please.

Οὖτις, ready to roll XTC out?

sure

I looked at the autechre thread to see if it was done but it was all gibberish

autecheperanto

Nah it's just LJ going on. ;)

Senses Working Poll-vertime: The XTC Poll Nominations and Discussions thread

Can I do a Yellow Magic Orchestra one?? Please???

YMO plus solo / collaboration tracks would a good one, although maybe a bit overwhelming.

but YMO alone is only like 7 albums and 70 tracks, plus of the 100+ solo albums there's only like 10 or so that I would imagine more than one or two balloters would know of...I think it's all fair game though

I would vote in a YMO poll. Provided I was aware of it in time, I do miss a lot of these.

Do you use Site New Answers or ILM New Answers?

SNA, sometimes clicking over to a particular board. I'm often not interested/able to participate in the single artist ballot polls (my listening tends to the broad over the deep), so it's more that I glaze over the thread titles, rather than them not actually appearing when I'm online.

same tbh

another problem is that a lot of the polls I'd enjoy simply don't have an existing fanbase. I could run the world's greatest Cardiacs & Affiliated poll, but it'd have 6 voters, so there's no point. The Autechre and XTC polls are extreme rarities in that they're ILX-popular AND I am quite a fan of both. /self-indulgent moan

just be happy I'm not in your polls shitting them up with my blather ;)

Albini and YMO to be added to the next full list.

I'd run an Elvis Presley poll sometime.

Cool, you're added.

Who will run Iggy/Stooges? Step right up.

We should really do a Scott Walker / Walker Brothers poll, right? I'm not sure I have the knowledge or wherewithal to do it.

Elvis is a great idea

That'd be really interesting: no idea if the winner would be a Sun single, an early RCA single, or a late-'60s comeback single.

"Elvis Talks To The Audience" ftw

What's going to happen after XTC? Chic Org with a volunteer showrunner, Iggy/Stooges with a volunteer showrunner, or Boo OK and the Bee Radleys?

I think we need another Autechre poll.

someone really needs to step up and do Stooges/Iggy. i only know the Stooges and none of the solo stuff so i'm out.